for the record, I also would have hit the star button if you’d gone with “you should try being funny...but this is probably as close as you’ll get this lifetime”...

Holly is (unsurprisingly) right about the meaning of the phrase...but what I think the toddler-in-chief means specifically is that his mate Bill’s “total exoneration” review of the report was meant to be all she wrote...

[TL;DR: he’s shook...abject existential terror is his baseline...& I probably should have waited longer before trying to comment about anything today because this wall of text suggests I’m entering mad-as-hell-&-not-going-to-take-it-anymore territory...]

maybe it’s my inner pedant talking but that’s not a tic...that’s a legitimate refinement of terminology...

it’s a mystery...why christen himself 3rd Ward Calliope when he has neither epic poetry nor eloquence in his arsenal...& Dr. John or Louis Armstrong would spin in their graves to have a bottom feeding malcontent like this speak for their birthplace...?

not as hard to believe as I'd like...I'm suddenly remembering I also went a few rounds with him about redlining but I honestly don't have enough spare time to go down that rabbit hole again...

the point remains that the process by which a leader of a party is selected remains a function of that party & not the wider parliamentary system...& as it happens the processes aren’t necessarily similar...

people make their plans and decsions on assumptions of what others will do, and not what others can do.

sort of...

in a lot of ways it looks like on the one hand the guy is the sort of person “voters” think should be locked up & stay locked up whilst on the other hand it’s been fairly clear for a while that rather than locking him up for any of the potentially valid reasons that might exist to do so he was instead incarcerated for…

wait...how the hell did I pull that out of the gray...?

keep straining yourself like this BO & one of these days you’re going to rupture something other than your dignity...

now, now...let’s not get carried away...

& I wouldn’t necessarily disagree with you about any of that...but I reckon if someone acknowledged that the horse had long since bolted & burned the stable to the ground on their way out the door I’d probably find it in me to throw a buck in a beer fund for them by way of acknowledging the gesture...& my guess is…

I have to admit though, his long game is better than most on that list...for a week or two a while back he & I swapped 10,000-15,000w words-a-pop posts about his all-in take on the 2nd amendment...

there’s always tech support to consider...

priceless...

had I the time I could dig through my history for some truly whackadoodle threads that he subsequently nuked with his beloved dimiss function...& that’s just the ones I was personally involved in...

any chance you could get this to whoever types up the @realdonaldtrump tweets real quick...?

I think he came out of the box defective...he’s been stuck in shrill-righteous-indignation mode for as long as anyone can remember...with sudden & abrupt mood swings from sycophantic to foaming-at-the-mouth tantrum throwing like there’s a loose connection or a faulty relay in there somewhere...& the off button seems…